Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

PART OF:: Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

Made:: 1887-1890

part of archive:: Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

maker:: Lucas, Francis Robert

Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables

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Album documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables
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Covers repairs to the Direct United States cable (Ballinskellig-Halifax) 1888; laying the Porthcurno-Malta-Zante cable (via Lisbon & Gibraltar) 1887, the Mossamedes-Cape Town cable 1889, the Argentine cable to Europe (Argentine-Ascension-Dakar-Cadiz-Marseilles) (mechanical details only) n.d., the Australia-New Zealand duplicate cable 1890, and the Suez-Perim-Aden cable 1890. Details include some printed programmes re laying, journals of voyages of cable ships and abstracts from Engineer's log, copy correspondence and telegrams and reports to Admiral Richards.

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Extent:: 215
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Identifier:: MS/0462/2

Access:: Open Access

System of Arrangement:: MS/0461-MS/0464 are all part of 1984-1432

copyright:: Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions

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Albums documenting the laying of numerous submarine cables